Saturn’s Virtue are a 4-piece progressive rock band hailing from Kilkenny, Ireland. Their birth, late in 2010, resulted when like minded musicians from two different bands found they had a lot of the same interests in music. After their first practice they could all tell there was something very different yet familiar about their direction. They started to push it as far as it would take them and found their varied styles came together joining in a flood of emotional and rhythmic intensity.
Their writing often takes a contemporary approach to rhythm and song structure with use of compound time and phrasing. Their songs can sound complex at times but when it all comes together there is a resounding simplicity of melody that anyone can identify with. The careful blend of effects help aid the transition of their instruments into subtle textures and alternate voices. This gives their songs more depth and clarity.
The band have been quite active in the studio over the course of 2011, finally making the move onto the live circuit later last year with a debut hometown show in Kilkenny, Ireland, in December gone. The video above was filmed at Cleere’s Theatre, Kilkenny. With a series of dates around Ireland the the hometown show in the bag, the band return to the studio for the early weeks of this year to score some new material. Hopefully it’s not too long before we see them on the live scene again.
One for fans of A Perfect Circle / Tool for sure. Get more on SoundCloud.
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